Word: joes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hearings, Senator Copeland has heard from the Secretary of Labor Perkins and her enemy, Joe Kennedy (see p. 77), has heard the proposals roundly condemned by labor-men who fear restrictive legislation. But Dr. Copeland has succeeded best of all in turning his hearings into a rousing Red hunt. Indeed, he got so far afield that last fortnight his Committee voted out a resolution asking a special $50,000 Senate investigation of Reds on everything afloat, "merchant marine, Coast Guard, Marines and Navy...
Referring to the N. M. U. Manhattan offices, Joe Ryan declared: "I've seen half-a-dozen men come out of that Communist centre with bats." Senator Copeland asked what he meant by "bats." Joe Ryan: "I mean baseball bats for slugging." Then he added thoughtfully: "Possibly we were responsible for that because we first started using them." With perfect frankness Longshoreman Ryan admitted that his batmen had been paid with money furnished by the shipping companies to beat up Joe Curran's striking seamen...
Accepting this resignation from the man who had been his first chairman of the Securities & Exchange Commission and who was shortly to become his new Ambassador to the Court of St. James, the President replied: "My dear Joe . . . You have maintained your justly earned reputation of being a two-fisted, hard-hitting executive...
...Joe Kennedy's last week in office was exceedingly strenuous. Back in Washington from Florida, he dined privately with the President; worked on a deal by which the Maritime Commission proposes to buy three good ships from International Mercantile Marine, for South American service; announced consolidation of the Grace Steamship Co. and Columbian Steamship Co.; discussed plans for building for South American trade three new 25-knot luxury liners convertible into aircraft carriers. He also had his last say on his two biggest and unsolved problems-new construction and maritime labor...
...sarcastically: "I submit that if the maritime industry is not 'ripe' for conciliation and mediation of its labor disputes, then it is overripe for ruin." At one point Mr. Kennedy was so steamed up that Senator Copeland cautioned: "As chairman of this committee I welcome your fury, Joe, but as a doctor I must tell you it isn't doing your stomach ulcer any good...